Famous Sites of Edo - Right Screen

The city of Edo (modern Tokyo) had grown by the early nineteenth century to a metropolis with a population of more than one million. The center of commerce and government administration under the Tokugawa shoguns, Edo was visited by many travelers and was the required residence in alternate years for the daimyo, the warrior rulers of provincial domains. The artist Hiroshige is primarily known as a designer of commercially published woodblock prints, the popular art of the Edo period (1615–1868).
He produced many series of prints on the famous sites along the Tokaido, the great highway between Edo and Kyoto, the imperial capital. Later in life, he turned to the famous sites of the city of Edo, a popular subject that culminated in the print series One Hundred Famous Sites of Edo.

In these screens, each panel has a separate painting that is mounted to one panel of the screen with a label identifying the scene.